Americans have become very cautious spenders, and that was extremely evident in May. Retail sales will continue to advance, but very slowly, very cautiously. |
Americans, for one reason or another, have not given up on their infatuation with SUVs that guzzle gas by the gallons. But there's only so much money to go around. If people are paying more to drive their cars, they will have less money to spend on other things. |
Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it. |
As consumers become more comfortable with buying from the computer, ... and this new generation that has grown up with the computer comes of age, what we will see is huge dollar amounts of retail sales being transacted on the Web and we will see a lot of stores become increasingly Web stores. |
As someone once said, 'It's the economy, stupid!' ... have seen sales plummet like hard lead because they're not giving consumers exciting products that they won't be able to resist. |
Based on what we've heard and seen so far, the fashion apparel stores and department stores are going to be hit with lower profits. |
Bigger is better. Bigger offers more opportunities for increasing sales volume and increasing the customer base. It would give them an opportunity to improve their comparable sales performance. |
By and large, we're seeing a public that is up to his eyeballs in debt. |
By shuttering the Marshall Field's catalogs, Target is saying something about its department stores business -- business isn't what it used to be, ... Part of the reason is that department stores overall are doing badly. |
Competing on price with Wal-Mart doesn't work. Hopefully they will never do it again. It was a bloody experience for them. |
Consumer spending had been in decline before this awful tragedy happened. Now comes this additional damper, ... Considering we are living in state of shock, sorrow and sadness, we really can't expect people to just go out on wild shopping binges. |
Consumer spending had been in decline before this awful tragedy happened. Now comes this additional damper. Considering we are living in state of shock, sorrow and sadness, we really can't expect people to just go out on wild shopping binges. |
Consumer spending is avoiding the mall-based, high-priced stores and is now drifting rapidly to the discount and low-priced segment. |
Consumer spending is going to be more restrained than it had been early last year. They will be buying things they need. They will not buy on impulse and will not buy frivolously. They will buy what they need and look for bargains. |
Consumer spending is heavily devoted to hard goods. That implies for the most part that home-oriented things have been doing well for some time, ... Home sales have been skyrocketing. Every time a home changes hands, tens of thousands of dollars are spent on decorating, furnishings, adding new kitchens and bathrooms. |